Category Archives: Cloud Computing

The Wait-And-See Approach to Cloud Computing

Here is an IT executive. He (or she) is competent and professional. He has built a successful career based on making the right decisions after careful risk and reward analysis. He is not the first to embrace the bleeding edge. He likes to wait and see. Better to be second to market rather than to…

Recent research studies by Google and by organization such as the Business Marketing Association show that emotions play a major role in B2B purchasing decisions. Let me explain: years ago, there was a distinction between B2C and B2B marketing, in that B2C purchasing decisions were supposed to be more emotion-driven, whereas B2B decisions were rationally…

In our last blog post we discussed how cloud computing has enabled the Internet of Things (IoT), and how this is expected to change some of our most basic assumptions about healthcare. One concrete example that may help is to imagine the future of healthcare through smart sensors, or sensors connected via the IoT. Some…

One of the most exciting developments in cloud computing is the enablement of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT applications running on the cloud will disrupt all sectors, and the healthcare industry more than most. A year ago, Forbes reported that, according to a new estimate from MarketResearch.com, the healthcare Internet of Things market segment…

Microsoft Dynamics is a suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software applications tailored to specific industries, namely, retail, service industries, manufacturing, financial services and the public sector. MS Dynamics is part of Microsoft Business Solutions. Dynamics can be used with other Microsoft solutions, such as SharePoint, Yammer, Office 365, Azure…

You would think that big companies have the resources to develop and manage their own cloud solutions. Yet, these blue chip companies are migrating all or part of their IT solutions and databases to external clouds. The reason for this is that the benefits of the cloud extend far beyond IT cost savings. Industry leaders…